Solar Energy Best Paper - Winners announced

Congratulations to the authors selected as a Best Paper (in their topical area), of the Solar Energy journal (2016 - 2017). The award is presented to papers published in the ISES scientific journal "Solar Energy", that demonstrate significant pioneering contributions to the solar energy literature, for innovative concepts or approaches, and whose quality and presentation have a lasting impact.

Congratulations to this years winners:

Best Paper in the topic of Concentrated Solar Power

“The morphological stability and fuel production of commercial fibrous ceria particles for solar thermochemical redox cycling”
Adam C. Gladen, Jane H. Davidson
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN United States

Best Paper in the topic of Photovoltaics

“Progress in research on the stability of organometal perovskite solar cells”
Mahboobeh Shahbazi, Hongxia Wang
School of Chemistry, Physics and Mechanical Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

Best Paper in the topic of Solar Resources / Meteorology

“QCPV: A quality control algorithm for distributed photovoltaic array
power output”
Sven Killinger, Nicholas Engerer, Björn Müller
Fraunhofer, et al., Germany

Best Paper in the topic of Solar Thermal / Heating / Cooling

“Energy conservation and renewable technologies for buildings to face
the impact of the climate change and minimize the use of cooling”
Fabrizio Ascione
University of Napoli Federico II, DII – Department of Industrial Engineering, Piazzale Tecchio, 80, 80125 Napoli, Italy

View past winners here.

The award was initiated in 1981, at that time it was called the Löf/Duffie Best Paper Award, and since 2007 has been called the "Solar Energy Journal Best Paper Award". The award is presented to authors of papers considered to be outstanding contributions published in the ISES scientific journal, "Solar Energy". The award is presented to papers that demonstrate significant pioneering contributions to the solar energy literature, for innovative concepts or approaches, and whose quality and presentation have a lasting impact. The papers chosen for this award are selected by the the Editor-in-Chief, Subject Area Editors and Associate Editors of the Solar Energy Journal.  The award consists of a certificate and a small cash prize funded by Elsevier.